“Hear much; speak little.”

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

Each day when you wake up, say: “What miracles would you have me perform today?” Then listen.

Helping begins with listening.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself – you’re the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.

He’s shy, he talks to her only. She’s bold, she listens to him only.

She’s never silent, you can always listen her soul speaking the tongue of poetry.

Be still. There are things worth listening for.